Damir Perisa wrote:
> how big are this .xpi files and would it make sense providing them with 
> the standard pkg or would it be useful to have them packaged as 
> additional pkgs?

There are 2 ways: One is to install them locally (in the user's 
.mozilla/.thunderbird folder) or
system-wide. The system-wide approach will (like Tobias already said) require 
to modify some config
files in the firefox/thunderbird installation which is imo a problem with 
package management.

> if you set LANG before starting firefox, would it use the correct .xpi 
> file for your language? where is this configured? (best would be to make 
> it work with the localisation and the LANG var instead of messing with 
> configs)

No, unfortunately, they both don't give a shit about LANG etc.
There are again 2 ways to do this. One way is to call ff/tb with a specific 
option (-UILocale iirc),
the other is to set an option:

firefox:
go to about:config and set general.useragent.locale.
thunderbird:
I forgot how it worked, but iirc you have to edit user.js or prefs.js or some 
other file in your
.thunderbird tree.

All this localization stuff in mozilla.org's products is extremely unfriendly 
when it comes to
packaging it.

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